Labour Law, Human Rights and Social Justice, Liber Amicorum in Honour of Prof.Dr. Ruth Ben Israel

This collection of essays--composed in honour of the leading labour law and social security jurist Ruth Ben-Israel--offers incisive perspectives on this vital aspect of today's post-industrial society. Featuring the most recent views of a virtual who's who of major labour law authorities, the book includes in-depth analyses of such important aspects of the field as the following:

• workplace representation;
• safety and health at work;
• labour conflicts;
• labour courts;
• the ILO supervisory system;
• right to strike;
• mployee privacy;
• enterprise reorganisation; and
• treatment of blue collar vs. white collar workers.

  All issues are treated from a comparative legal viewpoint, with valuable contributions from Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, and Japan.

  Ruth Ben-Israel is notable for her commitment--as teacher, writer, and international advisor--to the continuity and expansion of social justice as the welfare state has increasingly succumbed to the pressure of the corporate-driven global economic model. Her extensive body of work emphasizes collective bargaining, strikes and lockouts, workers' participation, equal employment opportunity (especially for women), and unfair dismissal.